All posts tagged Obama acceptance speech 2012

To paraphrase my favorite Vice President of all time: This is a Big Fucking Deal. The President — this President — is a Big Fucking Deal. Not because he’s an icon, but because of his prodigious skills and inordinate abilities. Because of what he has been able to achieve, despite the enormity of the forces stacked against him. Against us.

Hereunder, a few video reminders of what today’s about — starting with the actual inauguration, which was yesterday, because that’s what the Constitution mandates (by tradition, when January 20 falls on a Sunday, the festivities are moved to the following day):